Both had secret lovers and sordid relationships. They used Drew’s story as inspiration for their character Laura Palmer (played by actress Sheryl Lee) and suddenly their cult hit crime drama, “Twin Peaks,” which first aired in 1990, was born.īoth Hazel Drew and Laura Palmer were small-town beauties whose murders exposed the ugly misdeeds of wealthy, prominent locals.
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Hazel Drew’s ghost was said to haunt the area, waiting for her killer to be identified.įrost and Lynch agreed it was a great premise for a TV show. “Don’t go into the woods at night,” his grandmother warned him. Hazel Drew was found dead in Teal’s Pond in upstate New York in 1908. Decades later, screenwriters David Lynch and Mark Frost were brainstorming story ideas in a Los Angeles coffee shop when Frost remembered stories from his youth, fabulist tales spun by his grandmother while he spent his summers in Taborton, NY, close to the scene of Drew’s murder. The investigating DA interviewed all the locals who knew her, her family, many of her secret lovers, and anyone who encountered her by chance the night she was murdered, but gave a pass to two influential suspects, both Republicans in the notoriously corrupt town.Īnd yet, the story of Hazel Drew never died. More than 100 years later, people are still asking: Whodunnit? Who murdered 20-year old Hazel Drew?īlonde, buxom and blue-eyed, her body was found face down - her skull crushed - in Teal’s Pond on July 7, 1908, in a heavily wooded remote section of Sand Lake near upstate Troy, NY.
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